• 6. Everglades National Park project
Establishment of park authorized............................Act of May 30,
1934.............Page 34
An Act To provide for the establishment of the Everglades National Park in the state of
Florida and for other purposes, approved May 30, 1934 (48 Stat 816)
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress assembled, That when title to all the lands within boundaries to be
determined by the Secretary of the Interior within the area of approximately two thousand
square miles in the region of the Everglades of Dade, Monroe, and Collier Counties, in the
State of Florida, recommended by said Secretary, in his report to Congress of December 3,
1930, pursuant to the Act of March 1, 1929 (45 Stat., pt. 1, p. 1443), shall have been
vested in the United States, said lands shall be, and are hereby, established, dedicated,
and set apart as a public park for the benefit and enjoyment of the people and shall be
known as the Everglades National Park: Provided, That the United States shall not purchase
by appropriation of public moneys any land within the aforesaid area, but such lands shall
be secured by the United States only by public or private donation. (16 U.S.C. sec. 410.)
• SEC. 2.
The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized, In his discretion and upon
submission of evidence of title satisfactory to him, to accept on behalf of the United
States, title to the lands referred to in the previous section hereof as may be deemed by
him necessary or desirable for national-park purposes: Provided, That no land for said
park shall be accepted until exclusive jurisdiction over the entire park area, in form
satisfactory to the Secretary of the Interior, shall have been ceded by the State of
Florida to the United States. (16 U.S.C. sec. 410a.)
• SEC. 3.
The administration, protection, and development of the aforesaid park shall be
exercised under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior by the National Park
Service, subject to the provisions of the Act of August 25, 1916 (39 Stat. 535), entitled
"An Act to establish a National Park Service, and for other purposes", as
amended: Provided, That the provisions of the Act approved June 10 1920, known as the
Federal Water Power Act, shall not apply to this park: Provided further, That nothing in
this Act shall be construed to lessen any existing rights of the Seminole Indians which
are not in conflict with the purposes for which the Everglades National Park is created:
And provided further, That the United States shall not expend any public moneys for the
administration, protection. or development of the aforesaid park within a period of five
years from the date of approval of this Act. (16 U.S.C. sec. 410b.)
• SEC. 4.
The said area or areas shall be permanently reserved as a wilderness, and no
development of the project or plan for the entertainment of visitors shall be undertaken
which will interfere with the preservation intact of the unique flora and fauna and the
essential primitive natural conditions now prevailing in this area. ( 16 U.S.C. sec.
410c.)
